Formation of environmental educators in higher education: curriculum, citizenship and environmental awareness

Abstract

Realizing the University role in graduating educators, specifically environmental ones, and this paper aims to understand how the social and environmental issue has been included in this process as your attendance is required on graduation's curriculum. Filling this demand is necessary to apply it on Basic Education in inter and transdiciplinary ways. Based on the theoretical framework of Environmental Education criticism, having Freire as lead author, our methodological ground targets the documental analysis of the graduation’s PPCs syntheses by Unochapecó, picking categories related to environmental concerns. The analysis revealed a synoptic picture about the presence of the environmental issues in the curriculum, which has shown this matter especially in Biological Sciences courses, while in other graduations the presence is punctual, although an critical perspective.